censorship once a company starts making decisions about what speech is permissible and which is not. jesse is the host of the jesse kelly radio show in houston. thank you so much for coming on. you wrote this piece that i thought was compelling about alex jones. if you can silence this guy because you don t like what he says, why can t they silence you or me? that is the point, tucker. and they re coming for you and me next. alex jones was the weak member of the heard. because of his insane views on certain things, they knew they could pick him off. it was a test run. if we can pick him off, then we can come for some of the more mainstream voices on the right. people have to understand, it s no longer a couple of nerds sitting in a college dorm room swapping stories about a made-up
i m trace gallagher now back to tucker carlson. tucker: here s the central question for all of us who live in this country. how much power do the tech companies have over our democratic elections? american institute for behavioral research in technology senior research psychologist robert epstein weighed in on that question on this show. watch. we should be extremely concerned because i can tell you the bottom line here is content no longer matters. all that matters is the filtering and ordering of content and that is completely in the hands of google and facebook. the problems can be solved at some point but at the moment i think democracy is in trouble. tucker: that he probably woke you up. dan bongino was a contributory nra-tv and frequent guest on this show and he joins us tonight.
well, the tech giants see themselves as gatekeepers of the internet and routinely engage in censorship. non-mainstream liberals have been targeted too. what are the boundaries of censorship once a company starts making decisions about what speech is permissible and which is not. jesse is the host of the jesse kelly radio show in houston. thank you so much for coming on. you wrote this piece that i thought was compelling about alex jones. if you can silence this guy because you don t like what he says, why can t they silence you or me? that is the point, tucker.
exclusively for our show. watch. we wanted to figure out what exactly google is learning about us throughout the day. so here s what we re going to do. we have two identical phones. the only difference between these two phones is this one is in airplane mode. both of the phones lack a sim card and they haven t been set up to access any wifi networks for all intents and purposes these phones have no connection to a data network. we will keep them with us throughout the day. while we travel throughout d.c. we will find out what google is finding out about me. first stop sim s convenience store for a quick coffee. from there we took a walk to the capitol and took a walk around the senate office buildings and decided to hop in a car and head around town. hello. we re going to the children s hospital, please. to run our test, we had to do more than walk the block, so we took a tour around our nation s capitol. first, due north to the children s national medical center hospital then west t
congress should be doing that but they are not. they are using power and influence to shape the world around us. some of the companies bigger than the entire nation. this show is an examination of the companies and effect they have on our lives our country and politics, the scale of their reach is enormous. and this is finally drawing the attention of policymakers including the president. i think google and facebook and twitter, i think they treat conservatives and republicans very unfairly. i think it s a very serious problem because they are really trying to silence a very large part of this country. those people don t want to be silenced it s not right, it s not fair. it may not be legal, breast larson has been on the beat for quite some time and is he going to set table for us. all right, tucker. earlier this week the president sent out a tweet in which he said in part,